Winston Yap

517 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 267 citations indexed

About

Winston Yap is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Global and Planetary Change and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Winston Yap has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 267 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Building and Construction, 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 5 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Winston Yap's work include Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (5 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers) and Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (4 papers). Winston Yap is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (5 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers) and Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (4 papers). Winston Yap collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, Denmark and Japan. Winston Yap's co-authors include Filip Biljecki, Belinda Yuen, Yuting Hou, Patrick Janssen, Matías Quintana, Koichi Ito, Tianhong Zhao, Rudi Stouffs, Marcel Ignatius and Kunihiko Fujiwara and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Landscape and Urban Planning and ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Winston Yap

14 papers receiving 262 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Global Streetscapes — A comprehensive dataset of 10 million street-level images across 688 cities for urban science and analytics

2024 47 citations Matías Quintana, Winston Yap et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Winston Yap Singapore	8	125	83	73	63	47	15	267
Elias Willberg Finland	11	236 1.9×	98 1.2×	116 1.6×	64 1.0×	48 1.0×	24	390
Sedigheh Lotfi Iran	7	190 1.5×	59 0.7×	90 1.2×	73 1.2×	26 0.6×	13	328
Yuqi Yang China	7	178 1.4×	64 0.8×	99 1.4×	32 0.5×	15 0.3×	15	318
Jaehyun Ha South Korea	10	201 1.6×	51 0.6×	55 0.8×	63 1.0×	59 1.3×	26	331
Mengyang Liu China	11	146 1.2×	132 1.6×	151 2.1×	71 1.1×	85 1.8×	22	401
Mitchell J. Anderson New Zealand	5	168 1.3×	75 0.9×	39 0.5×	72 1.1×	11 0.2×	8	296
Ashley Dhanani United Kingdom	8	163 1.3×	89 1.1×	83 1.1×	109 1.7×	11 0.2×	19	302
Lijun Xing China	9	341 2.7×	314 3.8×	325 4.5×	70 1.1×	80 1.7×	20	589
Jin Rui Germany	11	132 1.1×	124 1.5×	132 1.8×	69 1.1×	59 1.3×	17	320

Countries citing papers authored by Winston Yap

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Fields of papers citing papers by Winston Yap

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Winston Yap

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Winston Yap. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Winston Yap based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Winston Yap. Winston Yap is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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15 of 15 papers shown

Quintana, Matías, et al.. (2025). Designing effective image-based surveys for urban visual perception. Landscape and Urban Planning. 260. 105368–105368. 2 indexed citations

Fujiwara, Kunihiko, Xiucheng Liang, Binyu Lei, et al.. (2025). VoxCity: A seamless framework for open geospatial data integration, grid-based semantic 3D city model generation, and urban environment simulation. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 123. 102366–102366.

Yap, Winston, Abraham Noah Wu, Clayton Miller, & Filip Biljecki. (2025). Revealing building operating carbon dynamics for multiple cities. Nature Sustainability. 8(10). 1199–1210. 2 indexed citations

Fujiwara, Kunihiko, et al.. (2024). Microclimate Vision: Multimodal prediction of climatic parameters using street-level and satellite imagery. Sustainable Cities and Society. 114. 105733–105733. 22 indexed citations

Quintana, Matías, et al.. (2024). Global Streetscapes — A comprehensive dataset of 10 million street-level images across 688 cities for urban science and analytics. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 215. 216–238. 47 indexed citations breakdown →

Miller, Clayton, et al.. (2023). Introducing the Cool, Quiet City Competition: Predicting Smartwatch-Reported Heat and Noise with Digital Twin Metrics. National University of Singapore. 298–299. 4 indexed citations

Yap, Winston, Rudi Stouffs, & Filip Biljecki. (2023). Urbanity: automated modelling and analysis of multidimensional networks in cities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 15 indexed citations

Yap, Winston & Filip Biljecki. (2023). A Global Feature-Rich Network Dataset of Cities and Dashboard for Comprehensive Urban Analyses. Scientific Data. 10(1). 667–667. 10 indexed citations

Yap, Winston, Patrick Janssen, & Filip Biljecki. (2022). Free and open source urbanism: Software for urban planning practice. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 96. 101825–101825. 43 indexed citations

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Yap, Winston, et al.. (2022). Incorporating networks in semantic understanding of streetscapes: Contextualising active mobility decisions. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 50(6). 1416–1437. 19 indexed citations

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Yuen, Belinda, et al.. (2021). Age-Friendly Neighbourhood Planning and Design Guidelines. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Hou, Yuting, et al.. (2020). The associations between older adults’ daily travel pattern and objective and perceived built environment: A study of three neighbourhoods in Singapore. Transport Policy. 99. 314–328. 37 indexed citations

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Yuen, Belinda, et al.. (2020). Ageing-Friendly Neighbourhoods in Singapore, Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. 1 indexed citations

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Yap, Winston, et al.. (2020). Neighbourhood built Environment, physical activity, and physical health among older adults in Singapore: A simultaneous equations approach. Journal of Transport & Health. 18. 100881–100881. 60 indexed citations

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Yuen, Belinda, et al.. (2020). Ageing-Friendly Neighbourhoods in Singapore, Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America : An Annotated Bibliography. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations

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